It's a weird juxtaposition to put a bed outdoors near weeds. I can see how some would like it from an artisitic point of view but it doesn't really do it for me. Maybe there's too much dissonance for me.
Hi Dave,
I was at first troubled by your unsupportive remarks. However, you forced me to face a picture that I'd not have otherwise commented on. Yes, you are, IMHO, correct in this. There is in fact no connection I see between the parts in the picture.
Charlotte,
There's no apparent relationship between the bed and the weeds. The bed is clean and shows no evidence of weathering or patina of time. So it does not yet belong back in the natural world of wind, burning sun, rain, dirt, bird droppings, dust, snails, spiders and their shells of past meals.
When we have such dissonance we are immediately asked to think of a meaning or possible question being asked. Now, if there was a title that challenged us to a metaphorical stage and there were symbols we undersood, then, yes, this picture might work. However, in spite of a broad and deep education, I have no clue as to what this might mean. O.K., you can say, there is no meaning. There is no narrative, but this is art!
Well, then, if that's the case, then the composition, colors and textures must command attention without any instruction or based on some body of art that we might know. Here again this fails for me. I see no argument, tension or romance between the bed and the grass.
Art must be a unit of worth requiring nothing else but it's form and (perhaps our education in relation to some context) to work. It could be that I'm culturally unprepared. So apart from that caveat, I am left unmoved and unimpressed.
For me this is a surprise since I do like components. The bed is attractive and the weeds grass are always interesting textures. However, it's the artists job to get an esthetic conversation going and I hear nothing.
Asher
